Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2555-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2555-2017
Research article
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10 Nov 2017
Research article |  | 10 Nov 2017

Blowing snow sublimation and transport over Antarctica from 11 years of CALIPSO observations

Stephen P. Palm, Vinay Kayetha, Yuekui Yang, and Rebecca Pauly

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AR by S. P. Palm on behalf of the Authors (28 Jun 2017)
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Jul 2017) by Philip Marsh
RR by Jan Lenaerts (17 Jul 2017)
RR by Kouichi Nishimura (07 Aug 2017)
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (11 Aug 2017) by Philip Marsh
AR by S. P. Palm on behalf of the Authors (12 Sep 2017)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (10 Oct 2017) by Philip Marsh
AR by S. P. Palm on behalf of the Authors (12 Oct 2017)
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Short summary
Blowing snow processes are an important component of ice sheet mass balance and also the atmospheric hydrological cycle. This paper presents the first satellite-derived estimates of continent-wide sublimation and transport of blowing snow over Antarctica. We find larger sublimation values than previously reported in the literature which were based on model parameterizations. We also compute an estimate of the amount of snow transported from continent to ocean and find this to be significant.